Bill Text: NY A04530 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a retail licensee for on-premises consumption to maintain and make available to customers, at no charge, a device which measures blood alcohol content.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A04530 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04530-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4530 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to requiring retail licensees for on-premises consumption to maintain devices which measure blood alcohol content for optional use by patrons The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 106 of the alcoholic beverage control law is 2 amended by adding a new subdivision 18 to read as follows: 3 18. Each retail licensee for on-premises consumption shall keep and 4 maintain upon the licensed premises a device approved by the authority 5 which measures blood alcohol content. Such device shall be located in 6 any area easily accessible to patrons and shall be made available for 7 use by patrons at no charge. 8 § 2. Section 109 of the alcoholic beverage control law is amended by 9 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 10 3. Any renewal of a license to sell at retail for on-premises consump- 11 tion shall be accompanied by proof that such premises is equipped with a 12 device to measure blood alcohol content pursuant to section one hundred 13 six of this article. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 16 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 17 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 18 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08045-01-9